Carriage cover holder



. l. E. COHN CARRIAGE COVER HOLDER Filed June 21, 1924 Patented Nov. 18, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRWIN E. COI-IN, OF NEW YORK, 1v. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 HENRIETTA COI-IN, or new YORK, N. Y.

CARRIAGE COVER HOLDER.

Application filed June 21, 1924.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. IRWIN E. Conn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Carriage Cover Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a carriage cover holder. An object of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient means for holding the covers used in connection with baby carriages firmly in position.

Another object concerns the provision of means whereby the holder will not deteriorate inits gripping ability through use.

A further object concerns the pr vision of a holder which while being efficient in use is capable of being made at the same time particularly attractive, a quality which is highly desirable in connection with its use on baby carriages and in association with baby blankets, which are gen erally of very high quality.

The invention is illustrated in the drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the holder in use;

Figure 2 is an elevation thereof; and

Figure 3 is a section taken on the line of Fig.

The form of the invention shown in the drawings is a. preferred form, although it is understood that modifications in the construction and arrangement of the parts and in the. character of the nraterials used may be adopted without departing from the spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claim.

In its general aspects the invention includes a preferably curved strip of flexible material adapted to be used to embrace the edge of a baby carriage and clamp the baby blanket to the edge of the carriage to hold it in place. This holder is preferably provided with resilient means whereby its own natural elasticity is enhanced, so that should its own natural elasticity be reduced through Seria1 No. 721,517.

use the elasticity in the means will augment or reenforce the natural elasticity so that the net effect will remain sufficient during the life of the article.

The preferred form of the invention shown in the drawings comprises a preferably curved strip 1 of material, which may be steel, celluloid or any other desired material, preferably one having a proper degree of elasticity. This strip is bent over into a form capable of snugly gripping the edges of a baby carriage. In this form it preferably has two free ends 2 and 3 which, when the article is closed, abut each other. Extending across between the sides of the strip 1, preferably at a point opposite the abutting edges 2 and 3, is a resilient means such as 4, which may be a spring of any desired material. This spring is connected at its opposite edges to the strip and by its resiliency will tend more surely to hold the free ends of the strip together and, therefore, when the strip is expanded or spread to embrace the edge of baby carriage any natural elasticity which it might gradually lose through use will be augmented by the elasticity of the sprin a. In other words the spring will tend to hold the clip or hold er closed and will continue to exhibit this tendency long after the natural elasticity of the material of the holder has decreased;

It is understood, of course, that this holder may be made in various shapes and forms and that the spring can be associated therewith in other positions than that shown in the drawings.

What I claim is A carriage blanket holder comprising a substantially curved strip of flexible mate-- rial having abutting free ends which naturally abut each other due to the resiliency of the material when the holder is not in use, and a spring which is connected at its opposite ends to opposite sides of the strip at a point substantially distant from the free ends so as to tend to hold the ends together and yet not be in the way of the material which is to be gripped by the holder.

IRWIN E. COHN. 

